U.S. soybeans fell on Wednesday, retreating from Tuesday's one-week high on expectations the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will estimate U.S. farmers have increased soybean sowings for this year's crop.

Efforts to address chronic malnutrition in billions of people have taken a step forward with Australian researchers defining processing conditions that boost the nutritional value of white rice -- the staple food of more than a third of the world's popula

Dublin, Ireland-based Fyffes has purchased the Canadian mushroom producer Highline Produce for approximately $110 million. Highline Produce is a fully integrated mushroom business operating from five facilities.

U.S. corn rose on Monday to hit a near three-week high, drawing support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s export report, which pegged weekly sales at more than 1 million tonnes above market expectations.

Gasc, the grain authority for Egypt, the world’s top wheat-importing country, has cancelled its last two wheat tenders after receiving no offers for the first, while the four cargos submitted to the second event were deemed overpriced.

Wheat acres across the country have declined. This is particularly true in the southern states and Louisiana is no different. Too much rain, low prices and a disease called headscab have created a perfect storm driving farmers who often plant wheat not to

Soy is a legume cultivated worldwide for food and feed, and a well-established dietary source of plant-based protein. Nevertheless, soybeans are known to contain specific proteins that cause allergic reactions or that inhibit the absorption of other nutri

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company, and BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, announced a collaboration to create an extensive rice genetic resource library to advance food crop research and development.

Lifestyle diseases like hypertension, cholesterol/ triglycerides, and diabetes have become very common now. Earlier, diabetes used to attack a person when he was over 50. But now even those who are in their mid-30s are suffering from this debilitating ail

U.S. farmers are deep into harvests of what will be bumper corn and soybean crops, but adjustments to government estimates for exactly how much was planted months ago are still affecting futures prices.

A Taiwanese delegation in Washington, D.C., U.S. this week will sign a letter of intent with the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) to purchase 5 million tonnes (197 million bushels) of U.S. corn and 500,000 tonnes of U.S. corn co-products valued at $1.23 billio